[R] Complex sampling?

[Daniel Nordlund]

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> On Behalf Of Hosack, Michael
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 7:34 AM
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> Subject: [R] Complex sampling?
> 
> R users,
> 
> I am trying to generate a randomized weekday survey schedule that ensures
> even coverage of weekdays in
> the sample, where the distribution of variable DOW is random with respect
> to WEEK. To accomplish this I need
> to randomly sample without replacement two weekdays per week for each of
> 27 weeks (only 5 are shown). 

This seems simple enough, sampling without replacement.

However,
> I need to sample from a sequence (3:7) that needs to be completely
> depleted and replenished until the
> final selection is made. Here is an example of what I want to do,
> beginning at WEEK 1. I would prefer to do
> this without using a loop, if possible.
> 
> sample frame: [3,4,5,6,7] --> [4,5,6] --> [4],[1,2,3,(4),5,6] -->
> [1,2,4,5,6] --> for each WEEK in dataframe

OK, now you have me completely lost.  Sorry, but I have no clue as to what you just did here.  I looks like you are trying to describe some transformation/algorithm but I don't follow it.

> 
> Randomly sample 2 DOW_NUM without replacement from each WEEK ( () = no two
> identical DOW_NUM can be sampled
> in the same WEEK)
> 
> sample = {3,7}, {5,6}, {4,3}, {1,5}, --> for each WEEK in dataframe
> 

So, are you sampling from [3,4,5,6,7], or [1,2,4,5,6], or ...?  Can you show an 'example' of what you would like to end up given your data below?

> 
> Thanks you,
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
>          DATE DOW DOW_NUM WEEK
> 2  2011-05-02 Mon       3    1
> 3  2011-05-03 Tue       4    1
> 4  2011-05-04 Wed       5    1
> 5  2011-05-05 Thu       6    1
> 6  2011-05-06 Fri       7    1
> 9  2011-05-09 Mon       3    2
> 10 2011-05-10 Tue       4    2
> 11 2011-05-11 Wed       5    2
> 12 2011-05-12 Thu       6    2
> 13 2011-05-13 Fri       7    2
> 16 2011-05-16 Mon       3    3
> 17 2011-05-17 Tue       4    3
> 18 2011-05-18 Wed       5    3
> 19 2011-05-19 Thu       6    3
> 20 2011-05-20 Fri       7    3
> 23 2011-05-23 Mon       3    4
> 24 2011-05-24 Tue       4    4
> 25 2011-05-25 Wed       5    4
> 26 2011-05-26 Thu       6    4
> 27 2011-05-27 Fri       7    4
> 30 2011-05-30 Mon       3    5
> 31 2011-05-31 Tue       4    5
> 32 2011-06-01 Wed       5    5
> 33 2011-06-02 Thu       6    5
> 34 2011-06-03 Fri       7    5
> 
> DF <-
> structure(list(DATE = structure(c(15096, 15097, 15098, 15099,
> 15100, 15103, 15104, 15105, 15106, 15107, 15110, 15111, 15112,
> 15113, 15114, 15117, 15118, 15119, 15120, 15121, 15124, 15125,
> 15126, 15127, 15128), class = "Date"), DOW = c("Mon", "Tue",
> "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Mon",
> "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri",
> "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri"), DOW_NUM = c(3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
> 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7),
>     WEEK = c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4,
>     4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5)), .Names = c("DATE", "DOW", "DOW_NUM",
> "WEEK"), row.names = c(2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 9L, 10L, 11L, 12L,
> 13L, 16L, 17L, 18L, 19L, 20L, 23L, 24L, 25L, 26L, 27L, 30L, 31L,
> 32L, 33L, 34L), class = "data.frame")
> 

Dan

Daniel Nordlund
Bothell, WA USA